A cinder block planter sculpture! Paint and stack cinder blocks, add plants to make a fantastic vertical planter. **Updated 10/16/2019** I really needed a way to spruce up this bare spot in front of a fence in my yard. I have a bunch of plants and not enough room on my deck for all of them, so I decided to…
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Make a DIY driftwood planter by re-purposing from nature. Don’t have driftwood? Substitute with a cedar tree trunk or any old rotted wood. **Updated 10/22/19 I had this succulent driftwood planter for a year, and during that year, I was pleased to discover after looking back at these photos, that out of the 8 or so types I planted, that…
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Learn to make these cement balloon planters the easy way, and that works! Use a balloon as your mold. Cement (not concrete) is the key. **Updated April 27th, 2019** I started this project out feeling really frustrated. Originally I tried to make these round cement balloon planters using concrete like other tutorials show, but it was a complete fiasco. Even…
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Round DIY magnetic cement planters made from a plastic ball, with an actual making time of only 15 minutes. In less than 2 hours, when the cement has cured, you’ll have the perfect mini cement succulent planter. Oh what joy these DIY magnetic planters bring me! I had been dying to make these for over a year. Last summer, while working…
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Repurpose an old sneaker to make a DIY cement planter. I saw a cement planter that someone made using a rain boot and I thought it would be really cute to make a planter out of a Converse high top sneaker. I love experimenting with unique shapes of existing items to make planters out of. Why not a cement sneaker…
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Make an easy homemade succulent planter from cement. Here’s a written and video tutorial for this fun DIY. If you read my cement bird bath tutorial post or watched the video version of the tutorial, then you’ll see that this flower-shaped succulent planter is strongly inspired by that. While making the bird bath, I thought of another way to utilize…
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An easy and unique cement door stopper, wrapped with a decorative leather inlay. When I made this cement door stopper with leather, we were living up on a ridge and when we had our windows open, we could get crazy wind tunnels through the house, so doors were slamming all over the place. I couldn’t find the generic door stopper…
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These pigmented mini cement Balloon planters are a spin on the original Cement Balloon Planter I made! Color the concrete with cement pigment for a vibrant contrast with the succulents. *Updated February 2020 I loved making the DIY balloon planters so much that I wanted to make them again, but this time I wanted them to be darker to give…
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Use a Dollar Store bowl to make a brightly colored cement bird bath. I’ve mentioned before, I’m a birder (bird watcher) and I made this Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder for the birds, but I was feeling like something was missing, a bird bath! A colleague at work was talking about how she watches the owls and hawks splash around in…
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